Quotes About Existence

Life goes on, as it should, but individuals are unique.

The reality is that we are bodies born from other bodies, bodies feeding other bodies, bodies having sex with other bodies, bodies seeking a shoulder to lean or cry on, bodies traveling long distances to be close to other bodies, and so on. Would life be worth living without these connections and the emotions they arouse? How happy would we be, especially given that happiness, too, is an emotion?

I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos.

I should constantly remind myself that the real leap consists in introducing invention into existence. In the world in which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself. And it is by going beyond the historical, instrumental hypothesis that I will initiate my cycle of freedom.

The passion with which native intellectuals defend the existence of their national culture may be a source of amazement; but those who condemn this exaggerated passion are strangely apt to forget that their own psyche and their own selves are conveniently sheltered behind a French or German culture which has given full proof of its existence and which is uncontested.

The power structure draws its validity and strength solely from the existence of the people's struggle. In practice it is the people who choose a power structure of their own free will and not the power structure that suffers the people. (139)

I am not a prisoner of history. I should not seek there for the meaning of my destiny. I should constantly remind myself that the real leap consists in introducing invention into existence. In the world through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself. I am a part of Being to the degree that I go beyond it.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.

The meaning of life is that it stops.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn't yet lived.

There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.

1. "Knowledge is that through whose existence he in whom it subsists is enabled to act in an orderly fashion and to act well."126 2. "Knowledge is an attribute (sifah) whose existence does not make it impossible for him who is alive and capable (al-hayy al-qâdir) to act well."127 Cf. K-1. 3. "Knowledge is the attribute (wasf ) that enables him who possesses this attribute to act in an orderly fashion."128

Proof of Your existence? There is nothing but.

You gave me in secret one thing to perceive, the tall blue starry strangeness of being here at all.

Si el infierno es la Historia, el paraíso es la vida.

El hombre se hizo para el mundo, y no el mundo para el hombre.

The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels.